What’s the Plural of Symposium?
Symposium comes from Latin, and so its original Latin plural form is symposia. Over time and frequent misuse, symposiums has also become accepted as a plural.
Symposium comes from Latin, and so its original Latin plural form is symposia. Over time and frequent misuse, symposiums has also become accepted as a plural.
Swine is used for both the singular and plural forms of swine (as in the ruminant, the pig).
Both strata and stratums are accepted plurals of the Latin noun, stratum.
Statuses and status are both accepted plurals of status. Status is the more common of the two.
Often called ‘a pair of scissors,’ scissors are only referred to as a plural, since it’s made up of parts.
Platypus, also called the duck-billed platypus, accepts either platypi, platypuses, and platypus as a plural form.
Pants are a plural-only noun, with no singular noun form, since pants are made up of parts. As a singular, pants are called ‘a pair of pants’.
Locus, which comes from the Latin word meaning, “a place” (as in, location), has loci as its plural noun form.